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The black swan was introduced into New Zealand from Australia a number of years after the settlement of Canterbury The bones of the swans found in the Sumner cave were also left there by the feasters who ate the Moa eggs, and they too were therefore contemperaneous with the Moa The figure of a dog carved out of wood was also found in the caveFun facts about the Kiwi bird 1 Kiwi cannot fly!The moa were large flightless birdsThey lived only in New Zealand, and are now all extinct There were nine species (in six genera) of Moa The largest and best known were the genus Dinornis, which grew up to 36 meters (12 feet) tall, and weighed as much as 230 kilograms (510 pounds) The group of birds to which the moa belong had been in existence since the Cretaceous period Dinornis New zealand moa bird facts